strangest systems I've sent email from

[John Willis]

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> The problem is that type #2 here covers most people, and sadly, the
> ivory towers of the industry & academia do not accept that certain
> languages or language features are actually widely-liked or attractive
> to people because they do not fit with the prevailing wisdom. So,
> although, for instance, TP & later Delphi demonstrated that the Pascal
> family can be appealing, practical, and a desirable choice; and the
> Oberon OS proves that the Pascal family can be used to build an
> entire, practical, useful and widely-used (in its niche) OS from the
> metal up.
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>
Let's not forget that the bulk of the Apple Lisa operating system and
at least large parts of the original Macintosh system software were also
implemented in Pascal (though IIRC hand-translated into 68k assembly
language), which was a pretty big mainstream success for proving
Pascal as suitable for developing systems software.